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When you are all sinew, struggle and solitude, your young – being soft, plump, vulnerable – may remind you of prey.
“Writing's like running downhill; can't stop if you want to.”
― A Place of Greater Safety
― A Place of Greater Safety
“I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“but that was the thing about light, I said, you don't need a lot of it. The other way round, a sliver of dark in a sunny garden, you'd never spot it, the light's stronger and quicker and the eye goes looking for it. If you think of the world like that, it doesn't seem as bad a place.”
― The Lamplighters
― The Lamplighters
“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
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